July 16, 2026 | 8:00 AM PT

Frontier AI has radically changed cybersecurity, enabling complex attacks and industrialized zero-day exploits at speeds and volumes human teams cannot match. Traditional patch management is not fast enough when your application is flooded with AI-surfaced vulnerabilities. Join us to learn why a web application firewall (WAF) is more critical than ever as the first line of defense, how to deploy full-stack application security instantly, and best practices for security hardening and protecting private cloud workloads–across VMs and containers–on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

Key takeaways with real demos:

• Instant Virtual Patching: Deploy WAF rules in minutes–auto updated to core rule sets (CRS) and custom signatures–to intercept exploits, buying teams time for permanent patches.
• Inline Shield Against AI-driven Attacks: Avi WAF is the first line of defense against OWASP Top 10 threats, delivering deep traffic inspection without cloud WAF 'tromboning.'
• AI-Assisted Behavioral Learning: Use a Positive Security Model to baseline "known good" behavior, automatically and proactively blocking AI-discovered zero-day vulnerabilities.
• Elastic Performance at AI Scale: Defeat automated, high-volume cyberattacks and DDoS tactics with Avi's distributed architecture without degrading application performance.
• Full-Stack Contextual Defense: Secure your environment by combining Avi's north-south WAF defense with vDefend's east-west lateral security inside the hypervisor fabric.